Trying to find a reason to believe some managers get their players ready better.
Dealing with addiction in a sport that wants to punish drug use.
Another way of looking for the hidden geniuses in the dugouts.
Beating The Grind, and valuing the men who do it.
San Diego gets James Shields for relatively little, as the market seems to have undervalued his durability.
In search of the unsequenceable hitter.
Maybe stathead teams don’t love their favorite strategy as much as you’d think.
How come we never do transaction analyses for player development hires…
When a 95-mph fastball for one hitter is a 90-mph fastball for another.
Ben and Russell preview the Hall of Fame voting results and review election season with Sports Illustrated’s Jay Jaffe.
Or: How historians will explain it if Pedro Martinez fails to get 5 percent of the vote and falls off the HOF ballot in his first year of eligibility…
Or: Is Miguel Cabrera and Miguel Cairo better than a pair of Melky Cabreras?
What’s the penalty for a bunch of lefties hitting in a row?
Should designated hitters be only loosely designated?